"Arttu V." writes:
> Is there a reason to use i486 stage3? I think an i686 one might have
> been available and a better hit if your system is/was set up as an i686
> before this? Well, not that it counts now, gotta go with what you have
> unpacked.
Looking at those stages again... it is not appa
"Arttu V." writes:
> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 16:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions2
>> -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions _autotst.c -o _autotst
>> -Wl,-O1 cc1: error: unrecognized command line
Dale writes:
> I was thinking about NOT doing the emerge -u world part. That would
> skip updating everything that has updates applied on your system. Doing
> just a emerge -u procmail would only update procmail and the
> dependencies if any are needed.
>
> Keep in mind, you can upgrade packag
Mike Kazantsev writes:
> man 1 ebuild
> ebuild /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail configure
> (do-some-sed-in-/var/tmp)
> ebuild /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail merge
Many thanks for the tips... and hugely usefull.
But:
Yikes I may have jumped the gun thinking I was good to go but at l
Mike Kazantsev writes:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:59:53 -0500
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Isn't there a simple way to introduce the sed run in procmail sources
>> during emerge?
>
> man 1 ebuild
> ebuild /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail configure
> (do
Stroller writes:
> But if you consider it a hassle, just mask the buggy version of
> procmail & forget about the problem.
Thanks... I thought of something like that but then noticed there's only
one version available in portage.
At that point I downloaded the previous version *21* tar ball and
I'm really sorry to keep beating on this portage stuff and I guess I
must be something of a dimwit since I find just about anything to do
with portage and emerge that is outside `emerge -flags whatever'
to be really hard to catch on to, even though (and shouldn't admit
this) I've been running gento
Dale writes:
> You could always sync then do a emerge -uv procmail. then it would only
> upgrade procmail and any friends that need to be updated. That would
> mostly likely miss most of the other updates that you are wanting to
> skip for the moment.
yeah... its a thought... but why emerge wor
Stroller writes:
> It's not really clear why you're asking, or why you're unable to sync.
> If the PC has no internet connection, for instance, security updates
> are unimportant.
Thanks for the tips... no it was something totally mundane.
I wanted to see if anything had been done to mail-filte
Grant writes:
> I'm just now learning how to compile and install manually. I
> installed makemkv-1.4.1 manually and now I found an ebuild so I'd like
> to install the latest version via the ebuild, but I get:
>
> # make uninstall
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.
>
> The mak
Trying to install procmail I hit a known bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551
And from emerge:
[...]
In file included from formail.c:25:
formisc.h:20: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
/usr/include/stdio.h:651: error: previous declaration of 'getline'
was here
ma
Is there a way to veiw the very latest packages on portage without
syncing my OS?
Paul Hartman writes:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once
>> had to add a patch into the emerge process manually.
>
> man ebuild
Just in case another intellectually c
Paul Hartman writes:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once
>> had to add a patch into the emerge process manually.
>
> man ebuild
>
> HTH :)
Doesn't any ma
galiza.ce...@gmail.com (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila) writes:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551
>
> HTH
Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once
had to add a patch into the emerge process manually.
Or dink around with sed inside as another poster on the b
setup:
kernel-2.6.29-r2
gcc-4.3.2-r3
procmail is one tool that is absolutely robust and I expected no
trouble whatever emerging it... however the emerge is failing like
as shown below. I'm not sure what to do about getline.
The only useflags that come up are one I set
`mbox'
and one other
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> > You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has
>> > genlop installed, you can get a list with
>> >
>> > genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emer
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted.
>>
>> It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the
>> highlights are:
>
>
Mike Kazantsev writes:
> Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be
> too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically
> in /etc/rc.conf (w/ baselayout-2) or /etc/conf.d/rc - look for
> rc_logger line or something similar with older baselayout.
[
Stroller writes:
> If you can't access the BIOS using the KVM then the problem is
> hardware, not with Linux software.
You mean if my keyboard through kvm can't get to bios... yea I see
your point.
I'll try that shortly... currently compiling an older gcc
Mike Kazantsev writes:
[...]
Harry wrote:
>> So if I could identify what it is in the kernel that allowes it to
>> work at the point where the kernel takes over (login prompt), then
>> maybe I could enable that aspect somehow inside an initramfs, and be
>> able to have the KVM recognized at the
Mark Knecht writes:
>> And just incase its something related to the newest kernel I've
>> downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 and building from an old .config of 2.6.28.
>> (not genkernel on this one)
>
> I think he was hoping that you would find something in your
> chroot/var/log/messages file or something
Mike Kazantsev writes:
>> Something finally allows the kvm pass through to be recognized but not
>> until I've reached the login prompt.
>
> But linux kernel isn't loaded or used in any way when grub screen comes
> up - grub is loading it as a last step of it's execution, so any kernel
> configur
Roy Wright writes:
[...]
>> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install
>> media.
>
> So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot
> option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the
> second part of the boot where the lines look
Mark Knecht writes:
>> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media.
>
> You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does
> this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partition
> and could that be part of the problem?
Yes, as advis
I've just completed first part of a fresh install.
Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted.
It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the
highlights are:
eix
genkernel
gentoolkit
gentoolkit-dev
gentoo-sources
grub
lynx
ntp
reiserfsprogs
rsyslog
vim
v
Summary:
What can I do to get my keyboard recognized (through a kvm switch)
right at bootup. I mean like when the grub prompt comes up.
Details:
I've had this curious problem for some time now. Over at least several
kernels but I think beginning with changing from one KVM to another a
few mn
ABCD writes:
>> Is it related to hal daemon problem?
>> emerge -vuD glibc
>> [...]
>>usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a
> Completed installing glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 into
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/image/
>>
> [snip sandbox error]
>
> That actually is completely separ
Dale writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> No I didn't do the update... As reported in OP, I actually wasn't done
>> with the follup chores to an update, and shutdown from a remote due to
>> absentminded pea brainedness.
>>
>> I'm do
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
>>
>> On next boot, the problem with hal daemon reported above started.
>
> and you did etc-update/cfg-update after the update? Have you read the
> messages
> with elogv? Same hal versions here - no problems at all.
I've completed the cfg-update -u and there was on
Once again I find myself with a big mess following an update world.
This time I was probably out of date by more than 1 mnth, probably
less than 2.
On first reboot the bootup proceeds well into level 3, right up to
starting hal daemon.
There is sets forever.
Since its past the point where ss
Dale writes:
> Since you can ssh into the system, could you remove hald from the
> default runlevel and reboot? I'm not sure about the keyboard and mouse
> after that tho. At least maybe you can get to a console.
As reported in OP, I sshed in and stopped the start of hald.. that
allowed boot t
Harry Putnam writes:
> But I can ssh into the box.
>
> What should I supply here to allow someone to help diagnose the
> problem?
>
> Recent info on hal from `qlop --list|grep hal'
>
> Sun Feb 15 10:52:16 2009 >>> app-misc/hal-info-20090202
> Sun Feb 15
Paul, you will be relieved to know that I braved up and installed the
1205sa card on a windows machine... updated driver which may have been
a waste of time and flashed both Base BIOS and SATA_raid BIOS.
Apparently this card has a BIOS that is in 2 parts or maybe each on it
own chip. Their are 2 o
[...]
Harry wrote:
>> Also I don't see any evidence this upgrade would make the card work
>> with those 750 drives.
Paul replied:
> You could perhaps try giving Adaptec a call or e-mail and see if
> anyone there can tell you what that controller supports, since their
> website doesn't really s
Paul Hartman writes:
> Are you using the latest BIOS for the Adaptec card? It looks like the
> chipset is Silicon Image 3112A and the latest BIOS on SI's website is
> 4.2.84. http://www.siliconimage.com/support/
After downloading the bios upgrade and trying to figure out how to use
it from the i
Paul Hartman writes:
>> So installed jumper on 5-6 and booted up. I still get the same kind of
>> hang at the point where the adaptec PCI card throws up a screen.
>>
>> Press F3 to enter configuration utility
>>Primary channel: WDC WD200-blah 19082 MB <= old 200gb drive
>> Secondar
Harry Putnam writes:
>> Most drives have a jumper to put them into 1.5gbps mode (rather than
>> 3gbps mode). See if your new drives have one of those jumpers.
>
> There are pins (no actual jumper was supplied) but the only thing mentioned
> on the drive about using pins is
Paul Hartman writes:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Boot partition is not involved here. Its on a a different (IDE) disk.
>>
>> Its not on a partition actually but in the MBR of Master drive on
>> first IDE controller. The newly added d
Anthony Metcalf writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
[...]
>>
> Sounds like the bios is seeing the drives in a different order now to
> before, and so is trying to boot from the wrong disk
>
> Can you manually alter the order it tries disks?
I can, and it is set directl
Setup:
amd Athlon64 +3400 architecture
I'm attempting to replace 2 200gb sata drives with 2 750 gb drives.
All drives concerned are WD.
And the 2 200gb are attached to a:
Adeptec 1205sa PCI sata card (non-raid)
The two existing drives have been working fine but need more room so
replacing w
I'm having a problem mounting a nfs share exported by my gentoo
server. The client problem occurs on an opensolaris box running
2008-11 build 109.
I have an ancient /etc/exports that may be way out of date... I
rarely use nfs. But I've begun setting up a NAS that consists of an
OpenSolaris serv
Etaoin Shrdlu writes:
> On Tuesday 3 March 2009, 03:10, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> cat a | awk '/^foo/{FLAG=1}\
>> FLAG{print} \
>> /^bar/{FLAG=""}'
>
> awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a
>
> does the same :)
Nice...
James writes:
> Adam Carter optus.com.au> writes:
>
>
>> I need to select all
>> the lines between string1 and string2 in a file. String1 exists on
> an entire
>> line by itself and string2 will be at the start of a line. What's
> the syntax? I
>> cant use -A as there is a variable number o
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> On Sonntag 01 März 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Anyone know if the ram sticks installed in one mobo can be tracked to
>> see what other mobo's it will work in.
>>
>> I'm thinking switching out a mobo and hate to loose the 3GB
Anyone know if the ram sticks installed in one mobo can be tracked to
see what other mobo's it will work in.
I'm thinking switching out a mobo and hate to loose the 3GB ram
installed in it. I don't have the spec to hand due to one machine
being shut down but do have record of it on that machine w
Paul Hartman writes:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a
>> specific compiler during an emerge?
[...]
> I guess you can just use gcc-config to change versions, compile it,
> then gcc-
Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a
specific compiler during an emerge?
I get this output during emerge of virutalbox-ose. Note that it says
to use a version of gcc earlier than 4.3. Is there some way to do
that without causing grief somewhere else?
[...]
VirtualBox
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> Do the easy thing first. Clean your case, reseat all cards and
> memory modules and check all caps while doing so. Any of them
> deformed? The 'head' going up? Strange stuff around its feet?
> Congratulation, you need new hardware.
Sorry to be a numb skull here bu
"Kevin O'Gorman" writes:
> I don't get much help from the logs. The access log shows that the
> request got an error code,
> 64.166.164.49 - - [15/Feb/2009:15:46:32 -0800] "GET /hex-bin/board
> HTTP/1.1" 500 542
>
> and all that the error log says is:
> [Sun Feb 15 15:46:32 2009] [error] [clien
Mark Knecht writes:
> Reseat memory and PCI cards, etc. Consider removing for a period of
> time any hardware not absolutely necessary to debug the problem. (I.e.
> - second video card, extra disk drives, extra network adapters, etc.)
> Run memtest86 for a few days if you can spare the machine. R
I've been experiencing spontaneous reboots on one gentoo machine
lately. Looking thru /var/log/messages... I see the restarts but
looking above that... I'm not seeing anything I recognize as being a
culprit.
Its been happening for a few weeks... but I've been busy and only now
digging into it (
Mick writes:
> Hi All,
>
> If any of you guys has a working sendmail configuration with Comcast I would
> be grateful if you could share off list. Although I have followed the
> instructions detailed here (except for the masquerade options) I cannot get
> it to work:
>
> http://www.linuxha.co
Jesús Guerrero writes:
>> There should be no posts beyond this point proclaiming how tuff it is
>> to use emacs if you have no network on a fresh install... Or having to
>> suffer through learning info to learn emacs to ah but who knows.
>
> So you word is definitive and infallible.
Where di
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> where? Because of the 'xemacs is even better'? Well, you are stating all the
> time that info is perfect for big things like bash - and then you are
> critizing me for stating unsupportable hard facts? Pretty ironic, don't you
> think?
Hehe... maybe so. You'll
Jesús Guerrero writes:
> El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 22:00, Harry Putnam escribió:
>> Grant Edwards writes:
>>
>>
>>>> The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee
>>>> invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman.
>>>
>>
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
>> > and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read
>> > info?
>>
>> You appear to be taking a potshot, not really ad
Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther:
>
>> Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer
>
> What the heck is a "Windows Installer"?
>
> *SCNR*
>
Thirty five reboots and several hours
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read
> info?
You appear to be taking a potshot, not really adding to the
discussion.
I know you are not incapable of installing emacs and we both know you
can read info without it quite well. S
Grant Edwards writes:
>> The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee
>> invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman.
>
> Info has been around a lot longer than HTML, but I think you're
> largely correct.
There is entirely to much made of RMS. I don't know him personally
and just a tiny bit
Dale writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Harry Putnam writes:
>>
>>
>>> Anyone else have trouble accessing cups documentation?
>>>
>>> Here using http://localhost:631 just fails with standard message
>>> unable to connect to server
Harry Putnam writes:
> Anyone else have trouble accessing cups documentation?
>
> Here using http://localhost:631 just fails with standard message
> unable to connect to server at 631.
>
> The html stuff under /usr/share/cups/html/
> appears to have the href links setup
Anyone else have trouble accessing cups documentation?
Here using http://localhost:631 just fails with standard message
unable to connect to server at 631.
The html stuff under /usr/share/cups/html/
appears to have the href links setup so that they point to somewhere
on the file system that does
Dale writes:
> The problem I ran into when I copied the old way, cp
> arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot, that wasn't the kernel but was a link to
> the kernel in the x86 directory tree. When I copied the link then the
> link got broke and then it appeared red on my screen. I thought I was
> going nu
Neil Bothwick writes:
> cd /usr/src/linux
> echo "$(hostname)-" >localversion1
> ln -s .version localversion2
>
> will give each kernel a name with the hostname and version
> added. .version is automatically incremented each time you run make.
I'm sorry for being so dense but that isn't clear to
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:38:48 -0500, ABCD wrote:
>
>> To be precise, the config option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION appends a string to
>> the end of the kernel version, which installkernel uses to place the
>> kernel image.
>
> You can get the same effect by creating a file called
Willie Wong writes:
>> i10_v86.c:486: error: 'TF_MASK' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> i10_v86.c:486: error: 'NT_MASK' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> see bug 236449 on b.g.o.
>
> recent kernel headers renamed some things and breaks the code.
>
> a patched ebuild is availa
This list may be too good for its own good... hehe.
Sorry to bring this up here but in fact the behavior I'll describe in
a moment is something I've learned to love from yrs of linux us with
this enabled. Including the last few yrs on gentoo.
I add this into xorg.conf in one of the display subse
Trying to emerge hwinfo I get the error output inlined below.
I see a list of warnings about undeclared this and that coming from
the src files but not sure what it means.
Anyone here that can recognize what the problem is?
(tail of output)
[...]
DFORCE_POST -D_CEXPORT= -DNO_LONG_LONG -I. -Ix86
Matt Harrison writes:
>> Are you backing up any windows boxes onto the ZFS? Is it just a matter
>> of making it available by way of samba/cifs?
>
>I'm using it for both attached storage via ISCSI, and standard sharing
>on a domain via cifs. I've got backups running from linux and windows
>boxes on
Matt Harrison writes:
> I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running
> Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth
> it.
>
> I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm
> over to ZFS on OpenSolaris and I haven't looked ba
Norman Rieß writes:
>> Is it connected into 10/100 or 1000 (gigabit) setup?
>>
> It is a gigabit setup. NFS read is about 30-34MB/s, writing is
> considerably slower with 15MB/s. So writing is a bit slow. But as i do
> not need fast storage i did not investigate. And it must be mentioned,
>
Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> sense. The one that really brings something new to the Linux
> filesystem world will be btrfs. I've already tried some older
> versions of it and it looks very promising. Volumes, RAID, data
> integrity, etc, all integrated into the filesystem, similar to Suns
> ZFS.
Ahh
Albert Hopkins writes:
> Depending on your usage you might see significant improvements or hardly
> any at all. Best way to know for sure is to try it out. Note however
> that on ext4 journal checksums are *on* by default (and off on ext3
> iirc). So when you are comparing performance you shoul
I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this
angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful
to that OP.
I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that
makes it better than ext3 or reiserfs? Is it safer journalling? Faster
read/wri
Norman Rieß writes:
> The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some
> fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the
> config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe
> that is something some people would miss. But i do not think a
Peter Humphrey writes:
> On Friday 30 January 2009 00:06:05 Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas
>> storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here
>> since I'm sure some of you will be usi
I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas
storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here
since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built
your own.
After looking at a few on google .. I'm a little surprised at the high
end pricetags and ev
David Relson writes:
> How about an external tool? I use sed to fill in LOCALVERSION, e.g.
>
> V=$( date "+%m%d.%H%M" )
> cp -p .config .config.old
> sed s/LOCALVERSION.*/LOCALVERSION=\"$V\"/ < .config.old > .config
>
> make vmlinux modules modules_install
Ahaa ... that looks just like
Grant writes:
>>> But I had expected Squid + module to be the answer, and no-one
>>> mentioned it. A couple of clowns mentioned OpenDNS, and DansGuardian
>>> was the only serious reply I got, so you might want to look at that,
>>> too.
>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/175114
Stroller writes:
> But I had expected Squid + module to be the answer, and no-one
> mentioned it. A couple of clowns mentioned OpenDNS, and DansGuardian
> was the only serious reply I got, so you might want to look at that,
> too.
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/175114
>
> I r
Vladimir Rusinov writes:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> What do I need to do to get remote /sys to mirror local /sys
>> Will booting the remote... once the transfer is done cure the problem?
>>
>
> Why do you need to sync /sys? It
I'm in the process of rsyncing an OS to a remote file system.
when rsyncing /sys to remote /sys... I get piles of errors of the
form:
WARNING: devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/ACPI_CPU:00/power/wakeup failed
verification -- update discarded (will try again).
This is after a session failed so I'm
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
> rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
>> Paul Hartman writes:
>>
>>> I'm ashamed to admit I made the most basic mistake. I compiled uvesafb
>>> as a module. Oops! Compiled it as "Y" instead of "M" and now I have a
>>> pair of Tux sitting atop my kernel boot screen and no more 80x
Robert Bridge writes:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:42 -0600
> rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
>> What I asked was if there is some tricky syntax I could use on that
>> kernel setting that would do: linux-2.6.26-gentoo-$HOST-N
>> Where N is an incremented number every time I build the kernel without
>>
Willie Wong writes:
> As to how I know C-v is verbatim? That came from trying to create
> ASCII art by hand ... :)
He he... yeah thats the way thinking works... bouncing around like
that.
I've used C-v for years as a way to see what is actually being sent
from the keyboard.. I never knew it mea
Willie Wong writes:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:59:17PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam
> squawked:
>> Key `e' and `/' when pressed just do nothing whatever. I think
>> there way be a bell since I see a flash when ssh'd in from and
>> Xterm in a X sess
I've run into a problem I've never experienced. I'll try to describe
the setup first, then the phenomena:
Gateway laptop core due
gentoo 2008.0 kernel-2.6.26-r1 running in a vmware app on vista home.
Let me say here that This app has run well for sometime but left alone
for quite awhile. I'm n
Denis writes:
>> You can use the "lspci" command, its in the pciutils package (if I'm
>> not mistaken) to get your system hardware information.
>
> Just like magic :-) Thank you so much!
If you liked lspci you will really like lspci -v.
Pointed out to me recently here:
From: Dale
Subject:
Harry Putnam writes:
> I've apparently forgotten whatever little I may have know about
> setting up nfs from having used it long ago.
[...]
> After setting all nfs related kernel items and booting the kernel.
> Checking that mods appears to be installed and running. Making
"Arttu V." writes:
> On 1/11/09, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Any regular files I create on the mounted share end up 744.
>>
>> Can I set a umask in the mount syntax or what do I need to do here to
>> have the files keep the standard permissions?
>
> for
Note this is a cross post here and debian.user.. the server is gentoo
the client is debian.
It's kind of a phony cross post though since I didn't think to do this
until I'd already posted on debian user... So its really a second post
with the same content. Some consider that a phaux paux(?)... S
I've apparently forgotten whatever little I may have know about
setting up nfs from having used it long ago.
I found a brief help page on google that I used to get this far along
at:
http://linux-bsd-sharing.blogspot.com/2008/09/howto-setup-nfs-server-on-gentoo.html
Its very brief and has no debu
Philip Webb writes:
> 090106 Willie Wong wrote:
>> you may want to change the root line to "root=purslow",
>> so the mail gets sent to purslow instead of postmaster
>> (which according to /etc/mail/aliases becomes root again).
>
> That doesn't work, but adding '> /dev/null' or '-s' in crontab d
Philip Webb writes:
>> Also, have you updated either cron or fetchmail recently?
>
> The problem originated 090104 c0520 ,
> when I edited ~/.fetchmailrc to delete the reference to a logfile.
> However, attempts to restore the STATVS QVO ANTE have failed:
> I've restored the previous version of
Willie Wong writes:
> So it's not perfect. equery works better, but slowly.
>
> I agree with you about the tools: it is hard to change one's habit and
> use new tools. I keep telling myself to learn eix but just never got
> around to doing it.
dep outputs several kinds of trick symbols with ou
Willie Wong writes:
> As to the question of "why that is"... I guess the author got bored?
> The link to the package catmur.co.uk/gentoo/udept is a dead link now
> (404s) I am not even sure if the original author can be reached at the
> e-mail address given by Dirk.
For the record I have writte
Harry Putnam writes:
[...]
>>> Does anyone recognize this problem without further diagnostics? If
>>> not then I will be back to the problem machine later tonight and
>>> supply more information. Ideas about what info would be most useful
>>> would be
Eric Martin writes:
>> Does anyone recognize this problem without further diagnostics? If
>> not then I will be back to the problem machine later tonight and
>> supply more information. Ideas about what info would be most useful
>> would be appreciate
> What packages did you update? It sounds
After updating today (from only a few days ago) I'm getting a
situation that makes it impossible to login.
unable to determine your tty name
The login prompt is there but after typing in the name and hitting
enter I only get the above comment.
Googling on this I find a gentoo bug (245370) Dec 1
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